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Warfare, Trade, and the Indies in British Literature, 1652-1771 (Paperback)
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Warfare, Trade, and the Indies in British Literature, 1652-1771 (Paperback)
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Warfare, Trade, and the Indies in British Literature, 1652-1771
demonstrates how British travel narratives of the long eighteenth
century distinguished between Mughal and American "Indians."
Through a New Historical and postcolonial lens, it argues that the
distinction between East and West "Indians" was widely recognized
and shaped British people's tendency to view Mughal Indians as
similar and in some ways even superior to Europeans while they
disdained native populations in the Americas. Drawing on
representations of "Indians" in Peter Heylyn's critically neglected
1652 Cosmographie as well as representations in the works of
canonical literary authors such as John Dryden, Richard Steele, and
Henry Mackenzie, this monograph provides a more nuanced account of
the origins and (d)evolution of "Indian" stereotypes than scholars
have to date. A text committed to the exposure and eradication of
colonial rhetoric and violence, Peter Craft's Warfare, Trade, and
the Indies in British Literature, 1652-1771 proposes a modification
of Saidian postcolonial theory that better applies to texts of the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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